160 Dance Floor Quotes

Following is our list of dance floor quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about sitting dance.

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Famous Dance Floor Quotes

Dance, dance, dance till you drop. — W. H. Auden

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop. — W. H. Auden

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. - Giorgio Moroder

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. — Giorgio Moroder

Disco is just pop music you can dance to. — Sheena Easton

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur. — Axwell

When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed. — Vijay Kedia

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail. — Clive James

I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality. — Danny Masterson

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. - Martha Graham

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. — Martha Graham

Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. — Neil Bogart

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. — Steve Aoki

Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor. — Steve Paxton

Dance is music made visible — George Balanchine

Dance when you're perfectly free. — Rumi

Short Dance Floor Quotes

  • Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. — Giorgio Moroder
  • If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat. — Artie Shaw
  • Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. — George Bernard Shaw
  • I never really did any disco dancing. — Barry Gibb
  • The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. — Giorgio Moroder
  • Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. — Martha Graham
  • Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music — Charles Baudelaire
  • I'm a DJ. I get the party started. — Avicii
  • It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me. — Chuck Berry
  • To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul. — Eugene Louis Faccuito

Dance Floor Image Quotes

Dance floor quote If you stumble, make it part of the dance.
If you stumble, make it part of the dance.

What Is Dance Quotes

I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is. — Frankie Manning

A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet. — Carlos Gavito

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance. — Pina Bausch

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. - Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Rumi

Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about. — Pete Townshend

When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music. — Carlos Gavito

Dance floor quote You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is. — 21 Savage

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing. — Jonny Greenwood

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. — Barbara De Angelis

Sitting Dance Quotes

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. - Lee Ann Womack

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. — Lee Ann Womack

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. — Robert Frost

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. — Lee Ann Womack

Dance floor quote Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love
Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.

Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter. When you come close to sellin' out reconsider. Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. — Lee Ann Womack

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers. — Etta James

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers. — William Blake

Dance floor quote Be the type of person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "Aww shit..
Be the type of person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "Aww shit.... they're up"

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for popularity is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress. — Masiela Lusha

If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy — Amy Lee

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance. — Austin Mahone

Dance Music Quotes

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. — George Carlin

Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing — Peter Tosh

Dance floor quote Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance with the rain
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance with the rain

I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me. — Zachary Levi

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. — George Balanchine

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural. - Anna Pavlova

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural. — Anna Pavlova

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. — Thelonious Monk

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it - Isadora Duncan

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it — Isadora Duncan

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul - Plato

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul — Plato

Dance Moves Quotes

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance. — Gabrielle Roth

You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do. — Gichin Funakoshi

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. — Mitch Albom

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. - Mary Anne Radmacher

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. — Mary Anne Radmacher

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan Watts

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. — Flavia Weedn

Dance floor quote Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after a step forward is not a disaster,
Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after a step forward is not a disaster, it's more like a cha-cha.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. — William James

I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets. — Gene Kelly

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on. — Gabrielle Roth

In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A. — Dianna Agron

Dance Party Quotes

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow. — Martha Reeves

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party. — Tiesto

Now you are seeing electronic dance music producers on TV, on talk shows. It's so great to see the festivals growing bigger and bigger, it's like one big family that's all partying with each other. I love being a part of that. — Martin Garrix

Dance floor quote Trust me, You can dance.
Trust me, You can dance.

Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart. — Karen Russell

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'. — Harry Crews

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. — Barry Humphries

Dance floor quote Take more chances, dance more dances.
Take more chances, dance more dances.

It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites -- others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can. — Sark

Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center. — Donna Shalala

I have several videos on my phone that I’ve never released. Having dance parties in our car, don’t be jealous! — Rihanna

Doing photo booths and signings, and doing all of that for charity, and having dance parties every night, is so much fun. I like to dance, and I know other people that like to dance. It's a great way to celebrate the time that we're all down there together. — Zachary Levi

Dance Love Quotes

Relax. Refresh. Renew. Play. Sing. Laugh. Enjoy. Forgive. Dance. Love. Hug. Share. Kiss. Create. Explore. Hope. Listen. Dare. Trust. Dream. Learn. TODAY! — Steve Maraboli

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing. — Lewis Grizzard

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils. — William Wordsworth

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. - Kahlil Gibran

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am. — Isadora Duncan

We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Paulo Coelho

Dance floor quote Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, It's about learning to dance in the rain.

I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! — Abigail Williams

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls . — Merce Cunningham

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man. — Gene Kelly

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. — James Dean

Floor Quotes

Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in. — Stephen Curry

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. - Dean Martin

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. — Dean Martin

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory. — Andrew Carnegie

Dance floor quote No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere. — Young Jeezy

I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor. - Dean Martin

I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor. — Dean Martin

Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive. — Chinua Achebe

Dance floor quote Great leaders are willing to follow. Leadership is a dance, not a parade.
Great leaders are willing to follow. Leadership is a dance, not a parade.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. — Wayne Dyer

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. - Bette Midler

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. — Bette Midler

Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor. — Keith Douglas

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. — Leonard Ravenhill

Dance Class Quotes

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it. — Rudolf Nureyev

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. — James Earl Jones

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different. — Bill Austin

Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat! — Jiri Kylian

There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands. — Ian Brown

You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice. — Martha Graham

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual. — Marcia Siegel

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it. — Frank Iero

Never stop moving, or you'll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it's just good to stay strong; I like being healthy. — Liza Minnelli

Dance Steps Quotes

The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence. — Carlos Gavito

I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances. — Jose Limon

Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young women to be willing to take risks, to stand up for the things they believe in, and to step up and accept the challenge of serving in leadership roles. — Wilma Mankiller

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern. — Harriet Lerner

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this. — Ginger Rogers

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. — Fran Lebowitz

Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it. — Kyra Davis

Dance... enjoy each step along the way. — Wayne Dyer

The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends. — Wayne Dyer

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought. — Saul Williams

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More Dance Floor Quotes

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. — Anne Lamott

Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before. — Shel Silverstein

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music. — Pink

I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I'm usually one of the first out there on the dance floor. Although I haven't had any formal dance training and something tells me I'm really going to notice the difference. — Ainsley Harriott

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion. — Diane Ackerman

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor. — Chris Brown

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie. — Martha Graham

The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs. — Robert Duvall

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. — Don Miguel Ruiz

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity. — Chris Lowe

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor. — Andy Warhol

Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees. — Nancy Mitford

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it. — Debbie Allen

Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"! — Danielle Steel

You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke. — Dave Ramsey

You know when this guy explains the essence of dance to his students he isn’t faking it. But it’s when the choreographer-dancer’s takes the floor that we’re really floored. When Prabhu dances time freezes. — Subhash K. Jha

When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you. — Anne Lamott

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again. — Norman Mailer

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! — Joe Lovano

I was on the dance floor but I couldn't hear the band. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations. — Joyce Cary

The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time. — Flavor Flav

I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance. — Jennifer Granholm

When I dance with him, one of my great loves, he is absolutely human, and when he turns to dip me or I step on his foot because we are both leading, I know that one of us will die first and the other will suffer. The slow dance of what’s to come and the slow dance of insomnia pouring across the floor like bath water. — Matthew Dickman

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. — Stephen Chbosky

Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before. — Shel Silverstein

To me, I'm always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that's the most important thing in making music for me. — Avicii

I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them. — Neil Patrick Harris

I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight. — Larry Howes

When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way. — Wayne Dyer

To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy. — Gabrielle

In a church, I am a saint. In a public place, I am a lady. In my own home, I am a devil....My house is where I can do as I please, scream and yell and dance and fall on the floor if I like. I am myself when I am in my home. — Lupe Velez

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered. — Anne Lamott

I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. All eyes on me. — Laurie Halse Anderson

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